Haha! Well, when trying to cause a scene and you're of a certain colour. Then your scene can end up costing jail time and a fine. Cause everything will be turned around to the race card, as everything in the country always does.

Expert Member

I work with an old Eskom employee. He's got a friend working in the operating room. Turbines that used to be their back up for when there is a real crisis is and have been running non-stop for years now...

Honorary Master

I think they should try to fill the generation shortfall with IPPs rather than letting Eskom waste more money. It'll probably take as long as building new plant to fix Eskom anyway. This is probably what our union and communist komrades fear with the break up of Eskom

Honorary Master

so let me ask this,
if something breaks now, that was supposed to be only for use in crisis? like that turbine @HunterNW mentioned.

what would happen? realistically?
do you believe the system will be strong enough to withstand such a failure with already so much also broken?

I mean yes, im sure it was strong and capable once upon a time, but now, with years of maintenance not being done correctly?
you still think it will survive? and even with a total shutdown/blackout, will it come back online?

Executive Member

Debt is at R480 billion from the last report I read. And I also read on here this morning that Stage 4 load shedding costs them R5 billion per day. So just yesterday's fckup has their debt at least at R485 billion thus far.

Honorary Master

Debt is at R480 billion from the last report I read. And I also read on here this morning that Stage 4 load shedding costs them R5 billion per day. So just yesterday's fckup has their debt at least at R485 billion thus far.